About me
I am a Lecturer in Theoretical Phonology in the department of Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. I received my PhD from the University of Tromsø, following a specialist degree at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Moscow State University. Previously I was Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
I specialize in theoretical phonology. My main areas of interest concern the nature of phonological features and the division of labour in phonological theory. Recently I have also been working on the interaction between segmental and suprasegmental phonology, particularly on the proper analysis of so-called ‘pitch accent’ systems. My other interests are morphology-phonology interaction (in particular stratal/cyclic models), historical phonology, and historical language contact. In particular, I am interested in the interesting phonological commonalities among the languages of north-western Europe, such as preaspiration, ‘pitch accent’ systems, sonorant pre-occlusion etc. Read more about this project here; a monograph on the subject is currently under contract to Cambridge University Press.
At Edinburgh, I am affiliated to the Phonetics and Phonology, Language Variation and Change, and English Language research groups. I am also an affiliate of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics.
Most of my work is on Celtic languages — particularly Welsh and Irish, and more recently also Scottish Gaelic (chan eil ach beagan Gàidhlig agam an-dràsta). My PhD thesis provides a comparison of selected aspects of the phonology of two Brythonic Celtic varieties, and a book based on parts of it was published with Edinburgh University Press (read more here). My other particular interest is in Germanic — particularly North Germanic — languages. I have also worked on Slavic and Romance varieties.
News
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I have a uploaded a revised draft of my paper on phonology in the Soviet Union for the forthcoming Oxford History of Phonology. Comments welcome!
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As of July 2018, I will serve as a member of the editorial board at Russia’s premier linguistics journal, Voprosy jazykoznanija
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I will present The influence of Norse on Scottish Gaelic, 85 years on at the 12th conference of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster.
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I presented There is no problem of /v/ in Russian phonology at the 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Get the slides and handout here
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An obituary of the great Russian linguist Andrei Zaliznyak that I co-wrote with Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dmitri Sitchinava, and Alexander Piperski has appeared in Linguistic Typology. Read it in open access here.
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In the next few months, I will present A metrical analysis of Scottish Gaelic tonal accent (Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2018), and (co-authored with Warren Maguire) English epenthesis in lC and rC clusters: Areal effect or drift? (ICEHL XX)
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Curriculum vitae
Contact
- Linguistics and English Language
The University of Edinburgh
Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AD
United Kingdom - pavel.iosad@ed.ac.uk
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Latest & upcoming presentations
- English epenthesis in lC and rC clusters: Areal effect or drift?, 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (25 August 2018). coming soon
- The influence of Norse on Scottish Gaelic, 85 years on, 12th Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (23 August 2018). coming soon
- A metrical analysis of Scottish Gaelic tonal accent, Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (25 June 2018).
- There is no problem of /v/ in Russian phonology, 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. (24 May 2018).
Courses
Latest papers
- Iosad, Pavel. 2018. Phonology in the Soviet Union. MS., The University of Edinburgh. Submitted to B. Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), The Oxford history of phonology Abstract pdf
- Iosad, Pavel. 2018. Optimality Theory: Motivations and perspectives. In S. J. Hannahs & Anna R. K. Bosch (eds.), The Routledge handbook of phonological theory, 13–36. London, New York: Routledge. Abstract pdf
- Iosad, Pavel. 2017. Welsh svarabhakti as stem allomorphy. Transactions of the Philological Society 115(2), 141–175. Abstract pdf
Before you ask, anghyflawn is Welsh for ‘incomplete’. I also get asked about my name a lot, so here is a brief explanation.
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